Author: Sally Weltrop
Date: 04:11:01 08/26/03
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On August 26, 2003 at 01:38:25, Russell Reagan wrote: >On August 26, 2003 at 01:08:01, Sally Weltrop wrote: > >>He never cared about the FIDE and look what happened their. There's 2 different >>WC's. GK is the highest rated but who's the WC? It all goes back to this >>"self-serving interest that no 1 wants to talk about but yet they say we have to >>be united and forge a common interest for chess, promote it, blah,blah. Here is >>the crux of all the problems. Those who can make a difference by taking the lead >>are arrogantly selfish and totally seeking their own interests. Most say,"Why do >>we have this problem promoting chess" whereas the real irony is the very ones >>trying to promote chess are really extolling themselves and their fat wallets. >>The common chessplayer scratches his head. Everyone gets all worked up about a >>"self-serving" human/machine when it really means nothing. There is a huge >>difference between IBM's promotion of a machine/human as oppossed to CB. >> >>IBM did make out in huge increases in stock prices. They made 10's of millions >>of dollars. Actually Vincent said this way before I seen anything in print. >>Imagine a third match and GK throttling Deep Blue 2. They'd lose millions as >>well. Pretty risky for them. > > >The Texas Rangers (baseball team) payed Alex Rodriguez $250 million to play for >their team. Is it his fault that they offered to give him that much money? They offered it to him? He negotiated it from them. These players always want more & more. Then what happens is your average Joe ends up paying $200 for a family of four in nose-bleed seats and we're not even counting beers,snacks etc. That's another $50 + > >I'm afraid Kasparov isn't the one to point the finger at here. Maybe no one is >to blame. GK certainly got the ball rolling by breaking away from FIDE title procedures and like anything when it crashes & burns he bails. > >Ask yourself what your goal is. Are you after chess popularity, or are you after >everyone being nice, likeable chess players? Do you think the popularity of >chess would be better off if we had a nice, courteous, easy going Bobby Fischer? disregarding his psychotic behavior he was a man who tried to get financial reward for himself but he did along the way raise the level and dignity that chess deserves. He always sought to raise it in some way although most saw him as a rude,brash chess diva and then down the road his ways were right in the end. we're not talking about being nice we're talking about Truth! >I don't.
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